Key events
ET8: Florian Wirtz tries to square the ball for Fulkrug in the Spain penalty area, but sends his delivery too close to Nacho, who controls the ball and hacks clear.
ET6: The momentum remains with Germany, whose home crowd is really getting behind them. For now they have defending to do and a Carvajal cross into their box is headed clear by Rudiger, who really puts his neck into it.
ET5: Florian Wirtz is booked for bringing down Marc Cucurella with a something of a reverse clothesline using his outstretched arm.
ET2: Wirtz tries to pick out Muller with a cross to the right but Dani Carvajal puts the ball out for a corner. Nothing comes of it but Spain struggle to clear their lines. They finally get to do so when Fulkrug is penalised for offside.
Extra time: Spain 1-1 Germany
ET1: Play resumes and each side is allowed another substitute. Germany have brough on Stuttgart centre-back Waldemar Anton for Kai Havertz. Andrich moves back into midfield.
Full time: Spain 1-1 Germany
Germany left it late but managed to conjure up an equaliser through the substitute, Florian Wirtz. They’ll fancy their chances of going all the way now, considering Spain took off Lamine Yamal, Nico Williams, and Alvaro Morato in their attempts to shut up shop and see out the game.
90+4 min: Muller gets in front of Laporte to connect with a cross from the right but sends his header wide from six yards. He might have been offside. Anyway, we’re going to have extra time …
90+3 min: Toni Kroos appears to foul Oryazabal on the edge of the Germany penalty area but gets away with it. He’s leading a chearmed life in what could be his final match as a professional.
90+1 min: That was an excellent cross from Mittlestadt and the header from Kimmich to put the ball back into the mixer was good too. Wirtz’s finish was superb, the substitute making sure to hit the ball ionto the ground so it bounced up and went in off the inside of the post.
GOAL! Spain 1-1 Germany (Wirtz 89)
Germany equalise! Wirtz scores with a shot off the post from eight yards, getting on the end of a brilliant Kimmich header back into play from the byline after Mittlestadt had sent a cross towards the far post from the left wing.
86 min: Fulkrug wins a free-kick for Germany about 30 yards out. Kroos tries to pick out Kimmich’s run in behind but referee Anthony Taylor orders a re-take.
This time, Kroos picks out Havertz at the far post and his downward header is saved by Simon. Spain get a free-kick because Havertz had shoved his marker in the back.
84 min: It’s worth noting that Havertz had Wirtz inside him pleading for a pass as he broke upfield after that ball from Simon came his way. He elected to go it alone instead.
82 min: Chance!!! Unai Simon is booked for time-wasting. Moments later, he sends a terrible goal-kick straight to Havertz near halfway. He hares upfield and tries to chip the goalkeeper, who was off his line. The audacious effort sails over the bar.
80 min: Germany bring on Thomas Muller for Jonathan Tah. Robert Andrich moves back into defence. Spain subs: Merino and Oryazabal on for Williams and Morata.
79 min: That was desperately unlucky. Fulkrug showed impressive strength and very nifty footwork to hold off Nacho and get that shot away, only to see his effort hit the post. Truth be told, there wasn’t much else he could do to get it on target.
Germany hit the post!
76 min: Chance! Florian Wirtz gets the better of Cucurella and squares the ball from the inside right towards the near post. With Nacho all over him like a cheap rug, Fullkrug sticks out a leg and steer the ball goalwards. It hits the foot of the upright and rolls clear.
74 min: Mittlestadt is booked for a injudicious lunge on Torres and will miss the semi-final if Germany make it. Moments later, Torres joins him in the book for something resembling a rugby tackle on Jamal Musiala. Robert Andrich has also been booked since coming on and will also miss any semi-final Germany might find themselves in.
73 min: Carvajal dives in to block a Havertz shot in the Spain penalty area.
70 min: Fulkrug tees up Robert Andrich on the edge of the Spoain penalty area after excellent work by Wirtz and Havertz. Simon flings himself low to his left to keep out the substitute’s low shot, which was on target. It’s a good save, nothing more.
67 min: Having been lucky to escape two bookings already, Toni Kroos finally sees yellow for a cynical tug on Dani Olmo, who was in the process of showing him a clean pair of heels as he ran through the centre.
Moments previously, Dani Carvajal had denied Germany with a crucial interception to stop Havertz teeing up Fulkrug.
66 min: Fulkrug heads over from a Toni Kroos corner as Germany continue their hunt for an equaliser. They’ve responded well to going behind.
63 min: A constant menace down the right for Spain, Lamine Yamal is brought off and replaced by Ferran Torres. The 16-year-old doesn’t look hugely impressed with his manager’s decision to substitute him.
61 min: Olmo’s finish for the goal was extremely precise and the ball was dispatched into the bottom left-hand corner, leaving Neuer with little or no chance of keeping it out.
60 min: Germany have made more changes, bringing on Maximilian Mittlestadt and Noclas Fulkrug for David Raum and Ilkay Gundogan.
58 min: Another lovely move from Spain as Germany press forward leaving gaps at the back. Olmo tries to pick out the unmarked Williams with a low ball across the penalty area but Rudiger makes a crucial interception.
55 min: The hosts are behind, fighting for their Euro 2024 lives and now we have a game on their hands. Germany’s dfefending for that goal was very poor. Both David Raum and Jonathan Tah allowed Yamal to play the ball across the face of their penalty area completely unopposed and to make matters worse, nobody had tracked Dani Olmo’s run. Yes, it was he and not Ruiz who scored – my head is gone!!!
GOAL! Spain 1-0 Germany (Olmo 50)
Spain lead! The ball’s played down the inside right to Lamine Yamal, he cuts inside with Jonathan Tah and Raum backpedalling in front of him. The teenager then rolls a perfectly weighted ball across the face of the Germany penalty area. Dani Olmo’s run was well timed and he swept the ball past Manuel Neuer without breaking stride.
50 min: Moments after the half restarted, when some of us were still trying to figure out who Germany had taken off, Florian Wirtz was straight into the action. He caught Aymeric Laporte dawdling on the ball while mulling over a backpass, dived in and tried to steal it.
In doing so, he forced the panicking Spanish defender to kick the ground as he tried to stop himself being robbed of the ball. Wirtz was penalised, despite doing nothing wrong. Hold on, there’s been a goal … and Spain are in front.
48 min: Morata receives a pass from Yamal with his back to goal, then spins his man and shoots. Over the bar.
46 min: I got slightly ahead of myself there, sending France out for the second half instead of Germany – that’s fixed now.
Second half: Spain 0-0 Germany
Play resumes and we’ve a few changes in personnel to report. Nacho is on for Spain, with red card-waiting-to-happen Robin Le Normand making way. For Germany, Robert Andrich and Florian Wirtz are on for Emre Can and Leroy Sane.
Half-time: Spain 0-0 Germany
We reach the break in a reasonably interesting match that is nowhere near as good as we all hoped it would be. One presumes both managers will be happy enough, even though neither side has been anywhere near as ruthless as we know they can be.
Goalscoring chances have been at a premium, ALvaro Morata has been anonymous and after all the talk about how brilliant he is that greeted Jamal Musiala’s performance against Scotland, I’m not sure he even touched the ball in that first half.
45+2 min: Cucerella fouls Gundogan from behind and the German goes to ground as if he’s been picked off by a sniper nesting on the roof of the stand. Germany have another free-kick but nothing comes of it. It’s half-time.
45 min: Spain are in the ascendancy at the moment, without mustering much in the way of a goal threat. As things stand, Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer has had a much easier evening than his opposite number, Unai Simon.
43 min: Cutting in from the left, Nico Williams eschews the option of taking on and beating Rudiger again, electing instead to wildly overhit a cross from the left and put the ball out for a Germany throw-in on the far side.
40 min: Replays suggest that Robin Le Normand was very unjustly booked for that foul on Gundogan a while back. The German captain appeared to throw himself to the ground but perhaps mindful of the fact that the Spain centre-back had just entered his bad books a few seconds previously, Anthony Taylor couldn’t get the yellow card out quickly enough. Harsh.
38 min: Williams takes on Sane down the left jinking, this way, that way and then this way again as he surveys his options in the German penalty area. There aren’t any, prompting him to wave his hands in the air in frustration.
36 min: Olmo plays Williams in behind with an excellent pass inside Kimmich. The winger bears down on the German goal, skipping past Rudiger in the process, then forces a save out of Neuer at his near post. Like Kimmich before him, he’s also flagged for offside. I’m not so sure he was but it doesn’t matter.
35 min: Havertz takes down a low diagonal and fires straight at Simon.
34 min: Kimmich is played in behind Williams by Havertz and drills a low cross across the Spain penalty area. Simon cuts it out before it can reach Leroy Sane. Kimmich had strayed offside and the flag goes up.
33 min: As yet, this match has failed to live up to the hype but it’s absorbing enough. A goal for either side before the break would liven proceedings up no end.
31 min: Emre Can is penalised for fouling Lamine Yamal and is lucky to avoid the yellow card Alvaro Morata unsuccessfully lobbied Anthony Taylor to brandish in his direction.
